Pakistan is not done with cataclysmic floods.
While the death toll is close to 1,500 dead, new rains are feared until the end of the month.
The cost of the destruction would amount, according to the central government, to 18 billion dollars, or 5% of the GDP.
The UN speaks of 30 billion.
In this context, the government continues to hammer home the need for more climate justice.
Again on Monday, while receiving the French ambassador in Islamabad, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif repeated that his country, which emits few greenhouse gases, was “
one of the most vulnerable to devastation
”.
This argument received a boost from the UN Secretary General.
Antonio Guterres pleaded on September 10 for a debt replacement mechanism in favor of the country.
“
Instead of repaying its creditors, a country uses this money to invest in greater resistance to the effects of climate change
(…)
and in the green transition of its economy
, he said…
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